Beijing

cz74699 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Ummm okay here's the thing. I think that its going to be much easier just to show lots of pics because way too many things happened here (a picture is worth a thousand words anyways, right??) I probably should have kept up with the blog as i went along each week because now it is just an overwhelming amount of information. Yea i kinda suck and I was having too much fun, haha.

friends

forbidden city

soldiers did a show

yumm peking duck

summer palace

summer palace- great view of beijing!

summer palace iced over lake

summer palace

forbidden city take 2

norma thing in the redlight district. ice cream/ sex shop one stop shop haha

atm getting money to buy stuff at the pearl market

big OL pants

craig and mat got us gross shots

austrailian matt...one of the many roomates we had in the hostels

olympic stadium

forbidden city

forbidden city take 2

b-e-a-utiful mountains

beginning our trek

sweeping the wall

beer tastes better on the great wall

arggg

nick!

with the lovely marjorie, one of our beijing roomates

salute your shorts

my slashed bag. someone tried to steal my items!

learning how to make dumplings

beijing at night

panda time

at the russian bar

slippery ice on the great wall..tryin not to bust a

at the zoo

riding an elephant

mat got a baby pint

new years night of spring festival

List of things that happened to me that I can remember off the top of my head:
1) a beggar and her child kept coming after us for money after we left a nightclub. After a few minutes of her not going away she started yanking on my purse and then i started running and she ran after me and she was trying to steal my bag. I had to push this crazy lady and almost fight her.
2) If you want to buy electronics the pearl market is the place to do it. However, be advised that you will get attacked! The sales people there are so pushy and so ridiculous that they actually were tugging at Mat's limbs and screaming to get Mat to buy things from them. After Mat was pushed around like the runt of the pack during recess, we all ran away and never went back.
3) Someone slashed my purse during a night out and I didn't notice til the next morning; luckily they were not successful in taking my stuff.
4) we were gonna go see the killers concert but they bailed bc they suck.
5) If you are ever in Beijing and want to go to a sports bar with awesome food, go to a place called The Den. I'll miss that place!!
6) I learned how to play squash.
7) me and Lilly almost got into a physical fight with a Russian man. its a long story but I basically took the liberty of kicking him out of the bar. He made Lilly cry; no one messes with my friends, haha.
8) *** psycho of the century*** We were hanging out watching soccer and tennis at the Den sports bar. A man from New Zealand is sitting alone at the table next to us. He introduces himself; he is drunk as a skunk. He later asked Mat, "hey what are you doing." Mat says "just watching the football match" Well for some reason this set the man OFF. He called Mat and Pete cunts and then went on this spiel about how they were fags and morons, and I quote "This is how you live? You are in fuckin' China you moron. I shit turds bigger than you. Look at this guy (pointing to Pete) he is a vampire. What's the matter with you? you are with two babes!" WOW. whaaaat? vampire? turds? hahhaa needless to say it ruined the night we had to move tables but the mood just wasn't the same.
9) I was the only one who caught this god AWFUL virus that wasted a week of my life. I had a fever, was throwing up, going to the bathroom every ten min, was dizzy, had a terrrrrible headache and couldn't even keep water down for the first two days. I kind of thought I was going to die. The worst part was it made me miss the superbowl =(
10) New years in Beijing was awesome. Fireworks all day and all night! (for a week) The city was completely trashed!!! firecracker papers everywhere. Although for a few days it sounded more like a war than a celebration.

Staying in Beijing for a month allowed us to explore the city thoroughly. We didn't realize til the last day of our travels that we had been stayin in the red light district of the city aka half naked girls in "massage" places peering out the windows, haha. We had a great time and overall I really enjoyed my time there.

Surprisingly enough, after seeing the capital of China, it made Chongqing seem like a not-so-bad place. Chongqing has taller buildings, the beautiful Yangtze river, plenty of bars and western food. So I'd have to say I had a sense of nostalgia and a much better attitude towards Chongqing. <3

If you need more specific stories on Beijing they are available upon request!

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